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Penrhyn Bridge, including parapet walls on the approach road to Penrhyn Castle Port

A Grade II Listed Building in Bangor, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2307 / 53°13'50"N

Longitude: -4.1119 / 4°6'42"W

OS Eastings: 259128

OS Northings: 372488

OS Grid: SH591724

Mapcode National: GBR 5Q.0HM3

Mapcode Global: WH547.T243

Plus Code: 9C5Q6VJQ+76

Entry Name: Penrhyn Bridge, including parapet walls on the approach road to Penrhyn Castle Port

Listing Date: 2 August 1988

Last Amended: 2 August 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 4099

Building Class: Transport

ID on this website: 300004099

Location: Spanning the Afon Cegin at the inner end of Penrhyn Docks. Reached off the Llandegai road and carrying the rear drive into the Penrhyn Estate.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Bangor

Community: Bangor

Locality: Penrhyn

Built-Up Area: Bangor

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Bridge

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History

Dated 1820 and initialled GHDP; probably by Benjamin Wyatt, architect to the estate.

Exterior

Coursed rubble. Single segmental arch with voussoirs, keystone and arch ring; iron plaque over the raised lettering. The parapet appears to have been rebuilt and has ironwork balustrade. Advanced piers at either end with tall concave recess and swept out bases; the roadway is carried to either side by revetment walls slightly swept out.

The parapets continue on the E bank towards the entrance to Penrhyn Castle with regularly spaced low piers; on the N side the parapet sweeps up over a garden door and curved back to end at a large square pier adjoining the Customs House; on the S side the parapet continues as far as the gate into the adjoining field. To W end the wall ramps down on N side and sweeps up to end on S side joining boundary wall rising to Llandegai Road. Old photographs show that the bridge had iron gates at the W end.

At the E end blow the roadway are 2 segmental arched openings with boarded doors; one to N side partly bricked up. These were originally the arches through which the LNWR Port Siding and Penrhyn Quarry Railway passed - the tracks led directly to the harbour.

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  • II Penybryn House
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  • II Tan-y Bryn Lodge
    Set into the hillside at the base of the drive to Tan-y-Bryn house; at a splayed angle to the main road.
  • II Penybryn Bridge, including railings & lamp standards
    Carried the lane up to the Golf Club, over the sunken section of the old Holyhead road just below The Old Farmhouse.
  • II The Old Farmhouse
    Situated on the terrace above the sunken section of the old Holyhead road cutting and reached by the road by the Golf Club. Penybryn House detached to left.
  • II Revetment Walls and Railings
    Short sunken section of the former London to Holyhead Turnpike road cut through the hillside. Reached off the Llandegai Road opposite the road to Port Penrhyn and off the High Street beside Tan y Coe
  • II Portico to the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel
    At the side of the lane leading up to the Golf Club; retained as a feature in the Penybryn gardens.
  • II Pont Penrhyn (partly in Bangor community)
    Spanning the Afon Cegin just south of the present main approach to the docks at Porth Penrhyn, the road carried by the bridge leads to the Port Lodge entrance to Penrhyn Castle.
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    Located approximately 20m to the south-west of Port House immediately to the north of Pont Penrhyn.

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